E99071@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Sipples) writes: > Whether you're seeing these particular trends at your bank or not is > interesting, but from an industry view I think this is a reasonable (and > unsurprising) generalization. (Certainly the biggest application provider > in this market, ACI Worldwide, recognizes these trends.) And you shouldn't > be surprised when you start to see these trends hitting your bank in the > coming years if they haven't already. There's an awful lot of pressure in > the banking industry to gain efficiencies, reduce costs, and improve > service levels. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#10 We're losing the battle for some other topic drift ... a couple recent posts (from a.f.c) about implementation of ATM machine sup****t on VM/CMS platform in the 70s (references to getting higher thruput than acp/tpf implementation on the same hardware) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#13 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#15 also had more recent experience earlier in this decade involving modifications to ATM network processing for (NACHA) processing trials .... for (AADS) debit card transactions http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads .... on the internet. The NACHA RFI response was submitted for us by somebody else, because we weren't members of NACHA http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/nacharfi.htm re****t on the result of the trials can be found here (23july2001) .... describing some of the processing modifications to sup****t the trials of doing debit transactions over the internet http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/News/news.html indirect reference in article in mar/apr 2005 ibm systems magazine article (although some of the historical info is slightly garbled) http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/marchapril05/stoprun/10020p1.aspx included some amount of working with ACI. other posts in this thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#97 We're losing the battle http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#99 We're losing the battle http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#101 We're losing the battle http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#7 We're losing the battle http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#16 We're losing the battle http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#17 We're losing the battle for other drift, some old ACP/TPF related email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#email800325 in this recent post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#39